AND IT BEGINS

Oh man guys, I cannot even begin to express how awesome you all are, I ended up with TWENTY strips in total from the lot of you! I’ve picked my personal seven favourites of the lot and I’m going to run a different one every day, but I plan on posting ALL of them in the blog section under the comic as well because seriously, you guys are all awesome and did fantastic work and I really love every one of them. I’m not even just saying that, every one of them got a chuckle out of me and I seriously had a SUPER HARD TIME picking. But, yanno, if I ran them all I’d be putting off drawing my own comic for three weeks (not to mention more than a third of the archive would have been drawn by other people…)

I’m going to kick this off with one of my absolute favourites of the lot, from Longyear. Because it’s funny and gorgeous and HEY IT HAS GORDON FREEMAN FOR ALL YOU GUYS WHO WON’T STOP ASKING FOR GORDON FREEMAN! And I suppose before Longyear gets too much flack for his moderately out of character Commander, I’ll throw in the comment he sent me along with this strip;“I’m sorry in advance that I misinterpreted your character for the sake of drawing a reaction face
love longyear”

I can respect the silly face guys. I can respect it.

Hope you guys like it as much as I do, and don’t forget there’ll be a new guest strip up every day this week!

(and for those of you who are wondering, the move is going pretty well. Got my visa just fine and all my stuff made it through customs. The road trip idea from Chicago to LA wasn’t going to work out, so I’m looking at alternative ways to move a room’s worth of stuff from Illinois to California)

The Canadian guy is still manly, despite his…. “-ness”. Duke is pretty much the same way.
Jared obviously has the potential to be manly. Probably the manliest pokemon trainer I’ve ever heard of, certainly.

It helps that Jared also used Mr Fish as a weapon when it was a baby, and now uses other trainers’ pokemon as Mr Fishchow (Part of your complete breakfast!) So he’s tons more manly than everyone in Pokemon.

WROOOOOOOONG!!!!!!!! LANCE IS THE GREATEST -NO- TEH GREATEST TRAINER EVER! PARDON MY FRENCH BUT HE’S FREAKING EPIC! THAT’S RIGHT! YOUR ARROGANCE FORCED ME TO USE “EPIC!” ARE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF?!? YOU HORRIBLE PERSON! HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THERE IS A TRAINER MORE UTTERLY POWERFUL THAN LANCE! HE WAS THE 4TH MEMBER OF THE ELITE FOUR! AND THEN THE CHAMPION! HE WAS THE FIRST DRAGON TRAINER EVER! SHAME ON YOU! SHAME.

Ok… I don’t know why you think that yelling is useful, but I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t any French word in your comment… And believe me, my english may be terrible, but I’m still french… So why the “PARDON MY FRENCH”?

“Pardon my french” is a phrase in English that is supposed to excuse someone for swearing.

Or as wikipedia puts it: “Pardon my French” or “Excuse my French” is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as French. The phrase is uttered in an attempt to excuse the user of profanity, swearing, or curses in the presence of those offended by it under the pretense of the words being part of a foreign language.

On the other hand, THE JOKE WOULD BE MUCH FUNNIER IF GORDON FREEMAN DIDN’T TALK BECAUSE HE DOESN’T TALK AND THEM HAVING NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE HE’S A MUTE WORKS BETTER WITH THE LAST THING COMMANDER BADASS SAID!

I feel really bad having to choose like this, because seriously, there were some seriously awesome ones that I love that I had to put into the secondary pile. I was even considering running like three a day to get them all in there, but that was just going to be crazy.

So I’m not gonna say the ones I’m running are the “best” so much as the ones that caught my sense of humour the most. :P

So many parts of this made me laugh. Nerd alert, the ejector seat noise, Jared’s reaction to The Commander’s comment about nerds, the 40oz in a bag that Gordon is holding, and last but not least, the way Isaac is sitting on the curb. All-encompassing win for Longyear. =)

This obviously isn’t canon since both of them are nerds, but are really very MANLY nerds. Plus, they’ve both gone through some really bad shit… in fact, it’s amazing how many parallels there are between the two o_O

Also, laughed at Gordon’s line. What a way to break the “vote of silence” :lol:

This is awesome. It’s even funnier that Dead Space 2 is supposed to be about Isaac getting his life back to normal, and then necromorphs happen and he has to kill off an entire elementary school or orphanage or something which sends him right back to crazy-land. PTSD! Anyway it’s fun to imagine this happening between the two games.

Well, I don’t know about Clarke, but Gordon MOTHERFUCKING Freeman belongs to that place. I mean, he stopped an alien invasion AND a government cover up starting with a freaking crowbar!
And then he traveled to the alien homeworld to kick the ass of a giant undead fetus thing!
BAD-ASS.